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Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Plum Cake/Fruit Cake

Plum cakes are also known as Fruit cake or Christmas cake. The traditional plum cake has alcohol content in it. Rum or Brandy is used in it and it is a very lengthy process to bake this cake. It seems this cake is made one month before serving. After baking this cake, every day little rum or brandy is poured on top of the cake and stored in an airtight container in a fridge. After one month this cake is served. I don't know whether it is true or not. But i read this somewhere.

I didn't even think about trying this cake as alcohol is used in it and because of its lengthy process. Recently one of my friend asked me how to bake it and that's how i modified the traditional cake recipe into an easy and non-alcohol cake recipe.This is definitely not a traditional method of making this rich cake. But mark my word, this cake tastes exactly or more tastier than the traditional one.

I used dry fruits like Prunes, Dates, Raisins and nuts like cashew nuts, almonds and walnuts. You can use dry fruits and nuts of your own choice. Usually, candied orange peel is used in the recipe and the dry fruits and nuts are soaked in alcohol. Instead of this i soaked them in orange juice, so that the cake gets the orange flavour which we get through the orange peel. You can add nutmeg powder also in this recipe. Its up to you how you want the cake to be.